Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President Audiobook

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• “Lincoln said that his speech at Cooper Union in New York on February 27, 1860, made him president. In this definitive account, Harold Holzer shows how and why that was true. Long overshadowed by other famous Lincoln speeches, the Cooper Union address is now finally getting the attention it deserves as a pivotal event in American history.”

  — James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “Lincoln of myth is a simple and plainspoken fellow. The real Lincoln was the master of a calculated rhetoric. There is no better proof of that important fact than Harold Holzer’s important book.”

  — Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “Few people know more about Abraham Lincoln than Holzer. This fine new work focuses on a widely known but little studied address that Lincoln delivered early in 1860 in New York City…Surely no one will again overlook this masterful speech.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This book is a must for anyone fascinated by Abraham Lincoln.”

  — Civil War Times

• “An engrossing account…stimulating and pleasurable.”

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “Lincoln at Cooper Union is the most interesting and important book on the sixteenth president published in years. Its richly detailed account of Lincoln’s visit to New York in 1860 is as absorbing as any novel, and its close analysis of Lincoln’s Cooper Union address adds significantly to our understanding of his political philosophy. I recommend it enthusiastically.”

  — David Herbert Donald, author of Lincoln

• “An excellent contribution to Lincolnalia.”

  — Booklist

• “It required someone with Harold Holzer’s combination of knowledge, experience, and talent to capture the speech’s unique complexity and profundity…All of this is brought to readers with meticulous historic precision, fascinating insight, and charmingly facile prose.”

  — Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York

• “Holzer’s research is prodigious…Although Holzer is an unabashed (even effervescent) advocate for Lincoln—and for the significance of this speech—he also is careful to analyze the architecture and rhetoric of the remarks and to puncture some puffballs that have grown in the yard of Lincoln Legends…The enthusiasm is infectious.”

  — Kirkus Reviews